SWINDON TOWN had two bankable assets. One of them, Sean Morrison, has now finalised his move to Reading.

Hopefully, the man mountain centre back with an eye for a goal and a torpedo long throw will net us more than £250,000 because he would be a steal at that price.

The other is want-away striker Charlie Austin, whose exit must surely be hastened by his transfer request this week.

If that does not tell you something is seriously wrong in the state of Thamesdown, I don’t know what does.

I wrote several months ago that Austin would be better off getting away as he was not going to be playing Championship football with Swindon. I have not changed my mind. Good luck to him.

Yes, he didn’t try a yard in the last half hour of the abject defeat by Yeovil on Saturday. Yes, he probably should not have whinged when refused permission to talk to Hull City about a potential move.

But to the fans who have already turned against him – what short memories you have.

We were lucky to get him after Bournemouth’s transfer embargo stopped him making the short hop from Poole Town in the Wessex League.

And since the first day I saw him score at the Madejski Stadium for Town Reserves against Reading, Austin has been brilliant for Swindon. His goals took us to the play-offs last year and his goals have kept us (just) out of the relegation mire this time around.

He’s a striker five minutes out of the lower reaches the non league game and the club has signally failed to find a forward to help take some of the goalscoring burden away from him. No wonder he’s frustrated.

Austin is away it seems, but manager Danny Wilson is not for walking and seems bombproof in the eyes of chairman Andrew Fitton. Indeed, Fitton sounded closer to quitting Swindon than his under-fire manager last week.

And all because of that shadowy figure from Swindon’s disreputable recent past, Mike Diamandis, and a bill of £300,000.

Diamandis, a former shareholder, once wielded an inordinate amount of power behind the scenes for someone who was not on the Swindon board Fortunately, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the club and he will have to whistle for his ‘consultancy fees’ and court costs.

The whole episode seems to have disillusioned Fitton. Had the decision gone against him, he could well have walked.

Now he can get his eye back on the ball, negotiating deals with exciting future Swindon Town players in the transfer window. He hinted at the weekend that activity was afoot.

It would appear that loan deals for Will Evans, Nathan Thompson and Kevin Amankwaah have all fallen through.

But what fans really want to know about are the players coming in because Swindon are spiralling downwards out of control and they could beat themselves at the moment.

Against Yeovil on Saturday the principal goal threat – until he was sent off – were the free kicks of full back Michael Rose.

And, despite being responsible for the only Yeovil goal, the returning Lescinel Jean-Francois was, for me, our man of the match. The remainder seemed to play with fear.

Congratulations to Jordan Pavett, the tall striker who has won a short-term deal with Swindon Town after winning through in the Samsung Win a Pro Contract competition.

Memo to chief scout Ken Ryder: go and take a peek at prolific 19-year-old Sholing FC striker Lee Wort. He might impress you as much as John Campbell.